Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a major warning to Iran on Thursday after Iran’s “terrorist tyrants” launched missiles and struck a hospital in Israel amid the increased conflict between the two countries following Israel’s preemptive strikes against Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs last week.
In a translated post on X, formerly Twitter, Netanyahu wrote, “This morning, Iran’s terrorist tyrants launched missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in the center of the country. We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran.”
Trey Yingst, chief foreign correspondent for Fox News, reported that Israel’s Soroka Hospital, which he confirmed was the largest hospital in the southern region of Israel, sustained “significant damage” after taking a “direct hit from an Iranian ballistic missile.”
A video shared by the Israeli government shows people running in the aftermath of the Iranian missile strike against the Soroka Hospital. The Israeli government noted that the ballistic missile hit a “major medical center,” adding, “We will not stand by. We will continue doing what must be done to defend our people.”
In a post on social media, Israeli President Isaac Herzog shared pictures of the remains of the Soroka Hospital. The Israeli president explained that he visited the hospital on Thursday morning and was met by doctors, nurses, and patients.
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“We stood together and looked at the destruction and devastation caused by an Iranian missile fired indiscriminately with the sole intention to take innocent lives in a hospital,” Herzog stated. “This is a war crime!”
The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that 271 people were hospitalized following Iran’s overnight attacks. The Israeli Ministry of Health also confirmed that at least 71 people were hospitalized due to the missile strike against the Soroka Hospital.
Speaking from the site of the hospital attack on Thursday, Netanyahu said, “We accurately hit nuclear targets and missile targets, and they hit a hospital, where people can’t even get up and run away. They are harming not far from here – there is a children’s and infants’ ward here. That’s the whole difference in a democracy that acts according to the law to save itself from these murderers and against these murderers who want to destroy each and every one of us. Every single one of us. Down to the last one of us. I think that says it all.”
